How to Reshape a Neckline

If the neckline on a pattern you’ve chosen to work with doesn’t suit you-whether your concern is figure flattery or style-don’t despair. There’s no need to search for a different pattern, because you can alter the one you have to create any neckline shape you prefer.

Do you find a jewel neckline boring or unflattering? Then simply change it to a V or sweetheart neckline. Or lower it and add volume and shaping with pleats, or use darts to draw the eye upward.

You can use a fitting sloper or pattern block as a master pattern for these alterations, or start with any semifitted, jewel-neck top or dress pattern that fits you well. The alterations explained here can be used on patterns intended for knits or wovens. Make a copy by tracing your chosen master pattern, and work with the copy to preserve the original for…

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I'm disappointed that this article doesn't address altering the neckline facings. I mean, surely if one alters the shape and construction of the neckline, one would need to alter the facings as well.

On a different topic, I purchased the most recent issue of the "Fitting" book. Again, it seems that the editors left out something very basic and important to anyone trying to learn how to alter clothing and patterns to actually fit one's shape...there was no section on how to fit hips and thighs. Granted, there is an article on how to measure for pants, but nothing on how to alter patterns so they actually fit.

Lots about shoulders and arms, but my problem areas are hips, bum, and thick thighs.

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I am glad to know that I am not the only one who cannot get these videos. When I have e-mailed you about this, you told me to get another browser, etc. I do not have a virus. If these videos are to be sold then they should be available in several different modes of downloading. So far just a WASTE OF MONEY.

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